In the 19th century, when the British Empire was approaching its zenith, the Victorians began to believe, that with their power and their fabulous wealth, they could do anything. Certain gentlemen became convinced that they could indeed do anything... and get away with it.

A noted Harrogate philanthropist is found murdered, the victim of a brutal and frenzied attack. His apparent killer, a frail and elderly workhouse 'imbecile', had fled his house as a child.

The Eighth Circle of Hell follows strands of lust, love and revenge as they twist together and stretch across that most notorious of times: the Victorian Defloration Mania.

Atticus and Lucie Fox are summoned to a country estate in remote Northumberland, where a series of bizarre murders appear to centre on the delusions of a madman, who lives alone on the edge of the moors.

Close by are the remains of a long-vanished castle, where, local legends say, King Arthur still lies in an enchanted sleep, waiting to be awoken at the End of Days. The killings have all been committed with the Hallows of Arthur; artefacts long thought to have been lost in history, and the locals swear that they have seen a ghostly knight-in-armour roaming the moors for months.

But how can that be? This is 1890, and King Arthur died over thirteen-hundred years before.

The rise and tragic fall of Grace Horsley Darling, celebrated Victorian heroine, who, with her father, rowed out into a storm to save the lives of no fewer than nine passengers and crew from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.

Coming next...

The Philosophers' Garden.

The directors of a Harrogate business are murdered, one by one, and their bodies left, bizarrely mutilated in a garden. Forensic botanist Hellenus Fox investigates, and uncovers a tragic tale inspired by a nursery rhyme.